Anyone help with wiring question?

[ToffeeDan]

I inherited an ornate pottery stand with brass fittings and lights.. trouble is I think it was bought abroad and it's a bit of a botch job and the light bulbs keep fusing..so I looked inside at the wiring...

The question relates to whether it's safe and if not what needs to be done.

The wiring from the four lights (3 x bayonet, 1 x screw - don't ask) is basic 2 wires (x 4 lots) which join inside the whole structure with a chock-block.. and then the wire leads to the plug - there's no earth (until a few feet from the plug when I think a botch job has joined it altogether so that (maybe) the plug is earthed...

Are we a fuse blowing away from being lifted 100 feet into the air? Thanks..

Cheers... goodbye cruel world !?!

 

[Boss_Blue]

@Ashtonian is your man.

 

[kev]

@Ashtonian is your man.

He's @ToffeeDan NOT desperate Dan

 

[roydo]

When you say "Inherited" it, like in a Will way, or somehow else?

Cos if its from a Will, reckon you annoyed someone and they want to burn your house down from beyond the grave.

 

[ToffeeDan]

@roydo - it was my uncle's.

 

[roydo]

@roydo - it was my uncle's.

Electricity is witchcraft mate. Anything discovered using dead frogs will always be so.

Get a pro in, or, if you live in a small town still in the 1980's, take it to your local Electric Shop that used to exist to mend stuff like kettles and TVs.

 

[Kurt.]

Check where the bulbs fit into the sockets and see if there's a pin at the bottom.


If there is... use it to stick a candle onto and just use candles.

 

[Sapie88]

Wet your finger and stick it in.

 

[COYBL25]

Wet sawdust normally does the trick

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

some of these posts are shocking

 

[Billy Dean]

some of these posts are shocking

That's not a very constructive post mate

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

That's not a very constructive post mate

are you positive ?

 

[tim gabbott]

There's also a lot of negativity on here as well

 

[chrismpw]

I inherited an ornate pottery stand with brass fittings and lights.. trouble is I think it was bought abroad and it's a bit of a botch job and the light bulbs keep fusing..so I looked inside at the wiring...

The question relates to whether it's safe and if not what needs to be done.

The wiring from the four lights (3 x bayonet, 1 x screw - don't ask) is basic 2 wires (x 4 lots) which join inside the whole structure with a chock-block.. and then the wire leads to the plug - there's no earth (until a few feet from the plug when I think a botch job has joined it altogether so that (maybe) the plug is earthed...

Are we a fuse blowing away from being lifted 100 feet into the air? Thanks..

Cheers... goodbye cruel world !?!

Do you mean the bulbs blow, or the fuse in the plug blows?

 

[Billy Dean]

are you positive ?

Just got it